July 29, 2015
Justice Stewart To Retire From Fifth District; Seat Will Be Wide Open In 2016 From the Madison County Record Brace yourself, southern Illinois, there's going to be an open seat race for the Fifth...
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Courts Struggle With Court Reporter Shortage From the Bloomington Pantagraph The dwindling numbers of court reporters and the small pool of candidates in line to replace them has state leaders looking...
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Judge Nixes Move To Dismiss Class Action vs Lawyer Accused Of Using Crash Reports To Market To New Clients From the Cook County Record A Chicago personal injury lawyer specializing in litigation...
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Illinois Lawmakers Evade Pressure To Buckle On Budget From the Associated Press Illinois has entered its second month without a state budget, and there's no indication that summer's dog days will...
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Supreme Court Gives Lisa Madigan More Time For Pension Appeal From Crain's Chicago Business In an action that's going to set some tongues wagging, the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for a...
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DuPage Chief Judge: Traffic Court Judges Get Threats, Need More Security From the Chicago Daily Herald Spurred by threats against fellow jurists, DuPage Chief Judge Kathryn E. Creswell is calling for...
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More Than 300 Asbestos Cases Set For Trial In Madison County Aug. 10 From the Madison County Record More than 300 asbestos cases are set for trial next Monday in a Madison County courtroom that seats...
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The Illinois Pension Disaster: What Went Wrong? From Crain's Chicago Business There are many paths to failure. But to understand how Illinois' pension system became the worst in the nation, it's...
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Illinois' New Normal: No Budget, But Money Still Flowing From the Chicago Tribune With Illinois in its second month without a budget, the standoff between Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democrats who...
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Court Documents Shed New Light On Aaron Schock Case From the Associated Press Federal court records unsealed Monday indicate that former Rep. Aaron Schock was issued a grand jury subpoena seeking...
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State Budget Fight Affects Paydays For Public Lawyers From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Payments to state’s attorneys and public defenders will continue to be delayed without a budget, the state’s...
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Gov. Rauner Signs Lawmakers' Rejected Pay Increase From the Associated Press Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a law barring Illinois lawmakers from receiving a pay raise this year. Rauner signed the...
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More Than 300 Madison County Asbestos Cases Set For Trial This Week Settle From the Madison County Record Each of the 316 asbestos lawsuits set for trial this week in Madison County have settled. No...
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Without A Budget, Illinois' Spending — And Deficit — Balloon From the Springfield State Journal-Register Illinois Republicans and Democrats alike wailed when the Democratic-controlled legislature...
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Local Enterprise Zones On Hold Over Illinois Budget Impasse From the Associated Press The state economic development agency that approves sales tax breaks for construction materials says it cannot...
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Rauner On Union-Strike Veto: 'Let Me Do My Job' From the Associated Press Imploring them to "let me do my job," Gov. Bruce Rauner asked Illinois lawmakers Tuesday not to undo his veto of a measure...
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Prosecutors, Defenders Could See Pay Cut During Impasse From the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin About a quarter of Illinois’ 102 counties will stop paying local prosecutors and public defenders within one...
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Illinois Hit With Downgrades As State Goes More Than 50 Days Without Budget From Bloomberg News Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner, agreed last week with lawmakers to designate pumpkin the official state pie....
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Lawmakers Hear Poverty, Voting Rights Concerns During Peoria NAACP Event From the Peoria Journal Star Before a listening session with Illinois representatives, Helen King passed out pieces of paper...
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Illinois Towns Drowning In Pension Debt From Hundreds Of Funds From Bloomberg News The pension-funding crisis undermining the stability of Illinois and Chicago is rippling through hundreds of smaller...
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